The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
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The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.
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Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
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The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
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Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.
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None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.
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The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
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A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production
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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys.
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The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
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Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.
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A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action.
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